I'm coming to you live from the Columbia River this morning. Stayed here at the in-laws place last night, because our place...uhh...let's just say the heat likes to stick around. It's pretty much insufferable. So I'm enjoying this cool river breeze while I can, which probably isn't going to be very long.Here's a little Minka Kelly to make your day just a tad bit hotter. She's good at that sort of thing.
On my mind today:
James Blake loses to Chile's Fernando Rodriguez, and apparently Rodriguez cheated. Pretty lame when you have to cheat to have a chance at the gold medal. I mean, c'mon, it's the freakin Olympics dude. The funny thing about the whole thing is that, for once, it's not just another case of a losing athlete just being a poor sport. Apparently, all the replays confirmed that Blake was right all along. Oh well. I didn't even know they played anything other than soccer in Chile anyway. Maybe he cheated for the good of the sport in his home country. In that case, we'll let it slide.
Bolt breezes to 100 meter semifinals. After Michael Phelps racing, the matchup between Usain Bolt, Tyson Gay and Asafa Powell is going to be the one thing I make sure I am watching. The term must-see TV is thrown around much too often, but if anything would be considered must-see, it will be this race. It's going to be nuts. Hopefully Gay can bring it home for the USA. It will surely be considered a huge upset if he does, though.
Phelps mere strokes from history. This is the point where the paranoid-sports-guy part of me is getting nervous for Phelps. Mainly because of all the talk surrounding the guy and him getting his 8 gold medals. You know, all that knock-on-wood type stuff and what not. I also cannot even imagine being Michael Phelps right now. How can the dude stand this much pressure for this long? Don't know how he does it.
Hand over the gold, China. Yeah that's right, you heard me right. I didn't stutter. Part of me can't blame the Chinese for marching out 12 and 13-year gymnasts, because if I was a huge Communist regime and I was hosting the Olympics, I would do whatever the hell I wanted to do also. But this is the ridiculously awesome thing about having the Olympics in a freaking. Communist. Country. This is probably only the tip of the corruption iceberg. I say let's put North Korea on the short list for 2016. Let's go Communism.
Rivals.com Preseason College Football Rankings. We can hardly wait until the college football season starts. We're going to do some previewing and breaking down the Pac-10 next week, but this link should give you a good overview of what the college football landscape is going to look like this next season. We have a feeling that the BCS champ is going to be neither Georgia or USC, like everyone is saying so far. Not sure who it might be, if not the Trojans or the Bulldogs. We need more time to think about it. It's just a hunch at this point.
Are Americans qualified to discuss Spanish racism? I agree with this post, at least in part. I get the overall point of what it's trying to say. But I still think that we, as Americans, can condemn racism or something that is considered racist, even with our country's checkered racial past. It's not like Jason Kidd or the American media is saying "Hey, we're perfect and those Spanish basketball players are horrible, horrible people." No one is saying that, at least, that I know of. What the Spanish basketball team did was racist. Even though America is far from perfect, why can't Jason Kidd or any other American call what they did unacceptable?
